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Rita Singer<p>Since I missed the annual return of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Fishguard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fishguard</span></a> Invasion day on Saturday, here's to Happy Surrender Day.</p><p>(No pitchforks or French soldiers where harmed in writing this article.)</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AgeOfRevolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgeOfRevolutions</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://bydbach.hcommons.org/the-last-invasion-of-britain-wasnt-in-1066/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bydbach.hcommons.org/the-last-</span><span class="invisible">invasion-of-britain-wasnt-in-1066/</span></a></p>
Rita Singer<p>Check out the Dictionary of Welsh Biography's new interactive timeline! </p><p>Did you know that the Black coal merchant Cesar Picton, the Ladies of Llangollen and the Hawai'ian chiefess Elizabeth Peke Davis Kaumualii were all alive at the same time? What's their link, you ask? They're all people in Welsh history!</p><p>Browse the timeline for all the names connected to our <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DiversityProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DiversityProject</span></a>. Some of these names still don't have an article. If you want to write their life stories, get in touch: rita.singer@library.wales</p><p><a href="https://js.histropedia.com/sheets/?id=1kax1hmRL-aKDUM6-FNHEI5E8p3PUj96PkBUeUbwlWYI&amp;colourCode=Gender|Published&amp;filter=Gender|Published" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">js.histropedia.com/sheets/?id=</span><span class="invisible">1kax1hmRL-aKDUM6-FNHEI5E8p3PUj96PkBUeUbwlWYI&amp;colourCode=Gender|Published&amp;filter=Gender|Published</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/digitalhumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalhumanities</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AgeOfRevolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgeOfRevolutions</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Bywgraffiadur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bywgraffiadur</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humanities</span></a></p>
Christine Johnson<p>🙌 The University of Pennsylvania's sale is available to non US customers as well 🙌 </p><p>40% off through December 31 using the code PENN-HOLIDAY24 (ooh, a variation on the theme). </p><p>_The Plantation Machine_ is a comparative <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/economic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economic</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/racial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racial</span></a>, and political history of two of the most important <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/sugar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sugar</span></a> islands in the 18th-century <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> (Saint-Domingue (now <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Haiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Haiti</span></a>) and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Jamaica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jamaica</span></a>). Written by two leading historians of the respective islands, The Plantation Machine reveals the connections between <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a> and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> that shaped the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AtlanticWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtlanticWorld</span></a> in the era before the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AgeOfRevolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgeOfRevolutions</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.pennpress.org/9780812224238/the-plantation-machine/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pennpress.org/9780812224238/th</span><span class="invisible">e-plantation-machine/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
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